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The Indian Ocean Chronicles: Day IV

How Not to Catch a GT Barjack the Angler Top-Secret Empty Flat Indian Ocean February 28, 2011 Day IV How to catch a Giant Trevally: Leave the bonefish rod at home. Stare at water till the sun goes down. I figure that’s how it’s done, but I didn’t see any today. Got off work and [...]

The Indian Ocean Chronicles: Day III

Milton Was Right Barjack the Angler Purgatory Flat Indian Ocean February 27, 2011 Day III …Paradise is lost. So here I am on this Atoll and 3/5th’s of it is off limits to fishing, and we can’t fish Oceanside from shore, and 1/6th of the area we can fish is muddy, so no sight-fishing. I [...]

Introducing BarJack, the Anti-Hero

February 27, 2011 He is known, by those of us who regularly fish with him, as BarJack. The name fits. He has a certain hyper-kinetic energy, especially on the water. Jacks are saltwater fish that are known to occasionally visit fresh and brackish environments. Again, that fits. He’s certainly more at home with salt spray [...]

Indo-Pacific Permit Video

Mad Phil Media follows Geoff Anderson and Simon Penn as they chase Permit along the isolated beaches of Western Australia’s Kimberley region in this trailer for Heads or Tails. I guess these are the same fish as caught by our intrepid BarJack below. I can’t imagine the Pacific has two species of permit, right?

The Indian Ocean Chronicles: Day I

Living Vicariously Through Himself Barjack the Angler Undisclosed Flat Indian Ocean February 25, 2011 To Whom it May Concern: Day I Well I made it. I’ve just stepped off a 36-hour flight—due in part to four two-hour layovers and an eleven hour time change. The only reason I know the actual calendar day is because [...]

The Midnight Special

Let the midnight special, shine her light on me. Let the midnight special, shine her ever-lovin’ light on me. ~Leadbelly August 30, 2000 I’ve finally caught the fish that originally inspired me to take up fly fishing and here is how it happened. A few days ago I came down with a case of that [...]

In Time

August, 2005 We fished until dark, but none would take. We marked their progress by the flashing tails and cast long leads to them with light flies. When they approached we’d strip the fly and they’d disappear in an explosion of water, perhaps to bide their time off the edge until the flats were peaceful [...]

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